Dr Eric Plum

Dr. Plum is a Research Track Lecturer and Advanced Leverhulme Trust Fellow leading work on active and switchable metamaterials since 2010. His main research interests lie in the areas of reconfigurable metamaterials, coherent control of metasurfaces and chiral effects in metamaterials.

After his undergraduate studies at RWTH Aachen (Germany), University of Southampton (UK) and as a Fulbright Scholar at New Mexico Tech (USA), Dr. Plum joined the metamaterials research group at Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre. He is a 2009 Marconi Young Scholar, was awarded the IOP thesis prize (QEP group) for his PhD thesis on "Chirality and Metamaterials" and he won the Dean's Award for Early Career Researchers 2015.